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Black protest poetry : polemics from the Harlem renaissance and the sixties / Margaret Ann Reid ; foreword by Nikki Giovanni.
- Title
- Black protest poetry : polemics from the Harlem renaissance and the sixties / Margaret Ann Reid ; foreword by Nikki Giovanni.
- Author
- Reid, Margaret Ann
- Publication
- New York : P. Lang, c2001.
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- Additional Authors
- Giovanni, Nikki
- Description
- xvi, 136 p.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "Black poets of the Harlem Renaissance (1920-1929) relied heavily upon traditional rhetorical devices, specifically irony and paradox. In contrast, their counterparts of the sixties adopted a more radical approach, employing instead street idiom and other modes of Black discourse. While the poets' strategies of the two periods differ, one element remained constant - the theme of protest. It is this similarity in purpose that marks the poetry of the Harlem Renaissance as a precursor of the revolutionary poetry of the sixties."--Jacket.
- Series Statement
- Studies in African and African-American culture ; vol. 8
- Uniform Title
- Studies in African and African-American culture vol. 8.
- Subject
- Geschichte 1920-1970
- 1900-1999
- Protest poetry, American > History and criticism
- Literature and society > United States > History > 20th century
- American poetry > African American authors > History and criticism
- American poetry > 20th century > History and criticism
- Social problems in literature
- African Americans in literature
- Harlem Renaissance
- Polemics
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.) > Intellectual life > 20th century
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [121]-127) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Foreword: The Faith of a Mustard Seed (in the Power of a Poem) / Nikki Giovanni xiii -- 1. Introduction: Rooted in Tradition 1 -- 2. The Harlem Renaissance 7 -- 3. The Revolutionary Sixties 49 -- Appendix Possible Source for the Lynching in Anne Spencer's "White Things" 109.
- ISBN
- 082042482X (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^^94011768^
- OCLC
- 30075198
- SCSB-11059604
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library